Technology and Journalism
March 9, 2009: Roger Fidler delivers presentation at NAA mediaXchange
"Amazon Kindle owners can how subscribe to more than 30 newspapers from around the world."
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Feb. 2009: We Media
We Media describes itself as "a Web site, a community, a conference and a global movement to make the world better through media." MU Journalism Convergence Professor, Clyde Bentley, blogs about his experience.
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E-Readers in the News
Roger Fidler, RJI Program Director for Digital Publishing, writes about e-readers.
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Finally - the news industry starts to catch up
Steve Weinberg, professor of magazine journalism at the University of Missouri, interviewed Roger Fidler, RJI Program Director for Digital Publishing. This is the first part in the series.
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Digital Newsbook Publishing Project
Four hundred years ago, printed newsbooks circulated throughout Europe and informed people about timely events and topics of importance. This project, lead by Roger Fidler, RJI's first fellow and now its program director for digital publishing, is using digital technology to revive the newsbook concept to disseminate in-depth newspaper reporting in the form of downloadable e-books.
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E-Reader Research Project
After several false starts in the 1990s, mobile electronic reading devices called e-readers are finally making their way into the general consumer market. This project is assessing the reading experience afforded by e-readers and exploring the potential of eReaders as a medium for circulating newspaper digital editions.
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About eMprint
The weekly eMprint (electronic media print) edition of the Columbia Missourian was the first technology initiative funded by RJI. This experiment, which ran from March 2005 to May 2007, was designed to assess the potential of this digital format to attract and retain readers and advertisers. Unlike the more common digital editions that exactly replicate printed editions, the eMprint model involved repackaging the newspaper's content in a magazine-size format that was optimized for reading and navigating on computer displays and e-readers.
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